Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes

Not going to walk me to the door? I asked, pretending to be shocked at his lack of gallantry.Of course I am. many would think that a bonny lass such as yerself wouldst be able to stay out of trouble for a distance of fifteen feet, but I know better.Did you just use the words yerself and wouldst in the same sentence? You can't be a pirate and a courtier at the same time, Dev. It just isn't done.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Bethany blinked. Did you just hit me? she asked, disbelief coloring her every feature.Skylar raised both hands, palms outward. I come in peace!You do not come in peace. You hit me.I hit in peace!

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who’d never met a site she couldn’t hack or a code she couldn’t break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I’d come within five feet of a pom-pom

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Feeling like she really was just seven or eight, Claire sat down on the floor, books all around her, and she opened the last one she’d picked up. Even though it was dark, and even though her eyes couldn’t see the words, she knew them.Knew the little prince’s story as well as her own.She closed her eyes. She leaned her head forward against the book. And she sobbed.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

She wasn’t going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened—it didn’t change anything.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

In the end,” Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, “it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That’s what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It’s lonely. It’s impossible. It’s all-consuming.” It is what it is.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

When you're hurting, you hurt yourself.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Home is the people who love you.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Home isn't a place. It's not having a bed to come home to, or a yard, or a Christmas tree at the holidays. Home is the people who love you.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I lie to her. Because this world is not safe. The people who are supposed to protect us, the people we are supposed to trust -- I know that sometimes they are the ones who do the most harm.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or not I actually qualified as human at the time.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

For a moment, there was silnece, and then at Brooke's nod, the rest of the Squad, minus me, chimed in. Yes, sir.I said nothing. For one thing, I wasn't exactly keen on speaking in unison, and for another, I wasn't about to make any promises I couldn't keep. Toby.I jumped in my seat. The Voice actually knew my name. And somehow, he had the freaky ability to ascertain that of all of us, I was the one who hadn't responded. Do you understand?I contemplated telling him what I didn't understand was his familial relationshiops, but stayed momentarily silent, causing everyone within a three-foot radius to kick me under the table at

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Home isn't a place, Cassie.' The memory crept up on me. 'Home is the people who love you most, the people who will always love you, forever and ever, no matter what.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't.You either let it break you, or you don't.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I am everything. I am nothing. I am powerful. I am forgotten.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Dance it off.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Celine snorted. “Never have I ever had a thing for blondes,” she said. And then, her eyes on Sloane, she shot our statistician a dazzling smile and lowered her own finger —meaning that she did have a thing for blondes.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The fact that you don't hate him for this breaks my heart. And if we weren't leaving because of what they'd done to you, we'd be leaving because the pack has twisted you enough to make you think that it's okay for someone to treat you that way.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Someone tried to kill me, and I’m going swimming. I’m going swimming, because it doesn’t matter. I’m going swimming, because I don’t matter. I’m going swimming, because that’s what Claires do. We swim and we daydream and we read and we wait for someone to care, and they never, ever, ever do.

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Three questions,” I said, ticking them off on my fingers as I spoke. “One: do you have a car? Two: do you have plans tonight? And three: how fast can you drive?

~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes